WEST AFRICAN SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION TRAINING IN BIOINFORMATICS RESEARCH (WASLITBRe)

西非生物信息学研究可持续领导力和创新培训 (WASLITBRe)

• 批准号: 10005512
• 负责人: Ezekiel Femi Adebiyi
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: COVENANT UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-05 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10005512
• 关键词: Africa; African; Award; Bioinformatics; Biology; Biometry; Data Science; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Engineering; Faculty; Fellowship; Future; Ghana; Goals; Health; Health Care Research; Heredity; Human; Individual; Information Sciences; Institution; Leadership; Mali; Mathematics; Mentorship; Nigeria; Physics; Research; Research Support; Research Training; Role; Training; Training Programs; Uncertainty; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; computer science; experience; informatics tool; innovation; interest; programs; statistics; tool development

West African Sustainable Leadership and Innovation Training in Bioinformatics Research (WASLITBRe) Training Program Summary. It is evidently clear that NIH has audaciously stimulated and is supporting research in human health and heredity in Africa, which is further, enhanced with informatics tools development and short-term training in bioinformatics. However, the long-term sustainability of the initiatives remain a doubt if effort is not directed to African Universities to develop innovative, future-looking- oriented data science academic education to perpetuity maintain the scientific research leadership in data science. We therefore proposed here to develop a West African Sustainable Leadership and Innovation Training in Bioinformatics Research (WASLITBRe) to support the H3Africa consortium. The proposed WASLITBRe is a collaborative program between Covenant University (CU), Nigeria, University of Bamako (UB), Mali and the University of Ghana/KNUST. The program will have two tracks - a training leading to award of MSc./ PhD, junior faculty (post doctorate) fellowships, and networking and mentorship training in advanced bioinformatics and data science research. Trainees for the MSc/PhD will be selected from pool of graduates with diverse background (clinician, information Science, computer science, mathematics, data Science, statistics/biostatistics, biology, physics and engineering), junior faculty fellowship will be selected from a pool of highly motivated graduates with less than 5 years of research experience post PhD training. The unifying theme of both tracks is that trainee must express and demonstrate interest in bioinformatics and data science research. Our long-term goal is to produce a sustainable network of individuals who are well trained in various aspects of advanced bioinformatics and data science research, ready to assume leadership roles at academic, health care and research institutions in West Africa.

西非可持续领导力和创新培训 生物信息学研究（WASLITBRe） 培训计划摘要。很明显，NIH大胆地刺激了 并支持非洲的人类健康和遗传研究， 信息学工具开发和生物信息学短期培训。但 如果不针对非洲，这些举措的长期可持续性仍然令人怀疑。 大学发展创新的，面向未来的数据科学学术教育， 保持数据科学领域的科研领先地位。因此，我们在此提议 开发西非生物信息学可持续领导力和创新培训 研究（WASLITBRe），以支持H3非洲财团。拟议的WASLITBRe是一个 圣约大学（CU），尼日利亚，巴马科大学（UB）， 马里和加纳大学/KNUST。该计划将有两个轨道-一个培训领导 授予MSc。博士，初级教师（博士后）奖学金，网络和 高级生物信息学和数据科学研究的导师培训。学员人数 硕士/博士将从具有不同背景的毕业生中选出（临床医生， 信息科学，计算机科学，数学，数据科学，统计学/生物统计学， 生物学，物理学和工程学），初级教师奖学金将从一个游泳池中选出， 具有少于5年研究经验的高度积极性的毕业生后博士培训。的 这两个轨道的统一主题是，受训者必须表达和展示对以下方面的兴趣： 生物信息学和数据科学研究。我们的长期目标是建立一个可持续的网络 在高级生物信息学和数据的各个方面受过良好培训的个人 科学研究，准备承担学术，医疗保健和研究的领导角色 西非的机构。